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These award-winning photos show planet Earth in ways you've never seen it

Saturday, January 14, 2017
It's easy to get caught up in worrying about how crazy the world is. But sometimes it's important to stop and remember that it's also beautiful.

There are ice caves that shimmer sapphire blue, glowing swirls in the sky as particles carried by solar wind collide with Earth's atmosphere, and serene scenes of snow blanketing and muffling everything else in the world.
It's harsh, powerful, beautiful, colorful, vulnerable, and strong.
The International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition, which just released the winning images from its 2016 contest, highlights some of the most amazing images that show this beauty that we've ever seen.
With permission, we've republished the winners here. If you can, we'd recommend checking them out in full screen mode.
 Hougaard Malan of South Africa won the single image "International Landscape Photograph of the Year" award with this shot of Ruacana Falls in Northern Namibia.The second-place single image award was won by Simone Cmoon for this shot from Lofoten, Norway.Eberhard Ehmke came in third in the single image contest with this overhead shot of Hessen, Germany.Alex Noriega won the "International Landscape Photographer of the Year" award for his body of work. Here we see wind and golden light on the sand dunes of Death Valley, California.In a second shot from Noriega's winning body of work, trees emerge from a meadow covered in thirteen feet of snow at Mount Rainier, Washington, USA.Another image from the photographer of the year's collection, Noriega's shot of Queets Rainforest in Washington feels lush and soothing.Here, Noriega captures a mesmerizing view of the Colorado Plateau in the fourth image from his winning body of work.In a second shot from Salier's work, we see an ice cave near Jokulsarlon, Iceland, which feels powerful in a primordial way.Here in a third photo from the second-place body of work, she captures the constant motion of water at Mt. Field National Park in Tasmania, Australia.Leonardo Papära's shot of the Northern Lights from Godafoss, Nordurland, Iceland, won the "Dominant Sky" award.
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